Chapter 265

• "What do you want me to say?" He demanded heavily. "I’m a 34-year-old man, and I did not embrace celibacy while getting to this age."
• "I didn’t think you did," Charley said stiffly. "I just didn’t—"
• She stopped, taking a bite out of her bottom lip, because she knew what she had been about to say sounded stupid and immature and totally unfair—but she just hadn’t thought about Adelina with him in that way. She didn’t even know why it should matter to her so much, yet it did.